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WORKSHOP ON INTERACTION DESIGN FOR CSCL IN UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/pub/bscw.cgi/d57667268/index.html
Mobile HCI - 6th International Conference on Human Computer
Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
13-16 September 2004 - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
DEADLINE FOR POSITION PAPER SUBMISSIONS: May 24, 2004
Topic
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Ubiquitous computing has been affecting our everyday lives by providing us
with mixed places in which the virtuality of computer-readable data is
brought into the physical world. This creates a great opportunity to use
technology in appropriate ways to enhance and augment the learning activity
in different aspects: by enabling people to interact and collaborate
remotely; to enlarge teaching and learning possibilities; to increase
student access to learning opportunities; by supporting hands-on
experiences and situated learning; by favouring a continuous exchange of
experiences and perspectives among the members of educational communities;
by connecting different learning communities, thus enhancing knowledge
building and sharing. These goals raise new challenges in terms of
interaction design, suggesting the need of new forms of interaction
patterns between users and environments, and between different groups of
users. Design can play a key role in shaping new ways of collaborative
learning and knowledge management, and enhance the natural evolutions of
learners’ sense of place and time towards the experience of living in a
mixed reality, in which physical and virtual spaces are blending together,
and social relationships become fluid and distributed.
Goals
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This workshop aims to raise discussions on the topic, and leverage a share
of experiences among people addressing these aspects from different
perspectives. In this sense we foster the exchange and interaction among
participants from different communities, such as interaction design,
education, CSCL and CSCW, software engineering, ethnography and sociology,
enhancing an interdisciplinary approach and cross-fertilization among
communities. The workshop should then be the opportunity for participants
to look at the topic from multiple points of view, and to make contacts
that can enrich their research. Experiences based on various devices (e.g.
mobile phones, hand-helds, laptops, tablet-PCs) and the integration of
mobile technologies with fixed ones (e.g. large projection screens,
printers, etc.) are welcome. We have also interest in discussing and
exchanging research experiences on various ways of collaborative learning,
from learning experience, design and interaction viewpoints. The
perspective to be discussed in the workshop is that improving the learning
experience today requires the invention of new interaction patterns and
their support via (mobile) technology. We are looking to learning as an
experience happening in the everyday practice and social interaction of
people.
Content
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Themes that are relevant for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
* interaction and interface design for distributed education: interface
design for multi-platform applications and mobile learning; shared
interfaces design; tangible and multimodal interfaces for education;
interface design for social awareness and collaboration;
* new interaction patterns within and among distributed learning
communities: recognition of collaborative, educational and social patterns;
activity theory approaches; ethnographic studies; comparative studies on
different domains and device technology;
* learning experience evaluation: usability and pedagogical evaluation
techniques; user experience evaluation methods and approaches;
* accessibility of learning material in different contexts: storage and
retrieval of Reusable Learning Objects into digital libraries that are
accessible from different devices; context-adaptive content annotation and
presentation; educational content generation and visualization on mobile
devices; knowledge building and management through distributed learning
communities.
Format and Submission
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The workshop will be held as a full day event, and will provide both time
for presenting ongoing research and for the formation of break-out groups
discussing relevant issues concerning one of the topics covered by the
workshop. We invite position papers of about four pages length that report on
original research covering one or more of the above named challenges.
Papers should be formatted according to ACM SIG style (see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), and should be sent by
email to [log in to unmask] no later than May 24th 2004.
Submission should include the name and address of the primary contact and
the paper as a PDF file. Notification of acceptance will be mailed to the
contact author by May 31, 2004.
Important Dates
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* May 24, 2004: Deadline for paper submission
* May 31, 2004: Notification of acceptance
* June 11, 2004: Deadline for early discounted registration to the
conference and workshop (full conference rate £300, one day/workshop fee,
£100)
* July 9, 2004: Deadline for standard registration to the conference and
workshops (full conference rate £350, one day/workshop fee, £120)
* September 13, 2004, 9am-5pm: Workshop takes place
* September 14-16 2004: MHCI Conference takes place
Organization
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Lucia Terrenghi (Main Contact)
Fraunhofer FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Phone: +49(0)2241 14 2154
Fax: +49(0)2241 14 2146
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Carla Valle
Fraunhofer FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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Giorgio de Michelis
DISCo, University of Milano
Bicocca Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 820126, Milano, Italy
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